Making some Artwork for Mamewah...

[JamesS]

I was thinking it would be nice to use mamewah and then point a window to some art that would show a layout of a persons control panel, or something similar with a description of what each button does for that specific game.

And I was wondering if someone has already done something like this or do I need to look into doing it myself slowly over time?

I just think it would be nice to show people what does what before they hit the 1p button and start the game.

[Minwah]

I will be adding something like this (as will most fe dev's no doubt) at some point to support the controls.dat project (& the ctrlr ini files).

I guess the quicker the project is 'complete', the quicker it will happen.   See http://fe.donkeyfly.com if you want to help

[JamesS]

That is what I was talking about.

What would really be cool but would take time is for it to be dynamic.

You would allow someone to have a pic similar to their layout.  And on the layout screen, allow someone to put in Button1-button8.

And if the game uses that button would place the text of that button use in the space designated by the user.  Than someone could have a stock picture of their control panel, with only the button names being dynamic.

Of course, this would be the best solution to me, but may be coding intensive.

[papaschtroumpf]

My understanding is that Howard Casto is working on something like that... I cobbled something similar in the meantime for my cab (a script pre-generates static pics that are loaded just like artwork in mamewah) but it's a pain to re-generate everything when the controls.dat file is updated.

[Howard_Casto]

The beta viewer can do some of these things, but be warned... From my personal tests I've found that even the simpliest of layouts can only be read in fullscreen.  I suppose if it filled the whole bottom of the screen, but that's a big stretch.  The best way to use it is in a dual screen setup, or to have a button in the fe call the app when you want to look at it.

I think I'm gonna go ahead and release the beta sometime next week.  You guys should help test (hint hint).